https://cache-test.guix.moe is now available for testing. It currently serves substitutes for #Guix and #Nonguix, mirrored from their official publish servers, retaining signing keys.

This new cache-test server uses mirror-substitutes (and store paths from guix-store-paths) to mirror substitutes from any upstream.

If everything goes well, I'll deprecate existing setup on guix.moe mirrors and deploy the new configuration. Feedback welcome!

#guix-moe
(Work-in-progress) Legacy series (390.xx, 470.xx), aarch64-linux support, improved documentation and verrsion selection support for Nonguix NVIDIA proprietary driver!

https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix/-/merge_requests/845

#guix #nonguix
@lukasrotermund #guix maybe, but is not easy to start, altough you can choose several window managers at start. The issue would be #nonguix for propietary video and wireless, but if you need to use that, theres a way to blacklist every propietary blob modulo the wireless. For instance if I have to boot a non free kernel I disable all the mei* blobs and a few intel GPU ones which are not needed for OpenGL 4.6/Vulkan and video decoding.
@draqlo I guess you're using #nonguix ? You can ask on #nonguix issues or there's a #nonguix irc channel as well.
Anyone else is facing issues to connect substitutes.nonguix.org ? #guix #nonguix
Is #nonguix the Nix #flakes of the Guix community?
2026-02-11 build is out!

The desktop environment has been changed to niri + Noctalia shell. It now also starts Guix System installer automatically, though you're expected to finish keyboard layout setup on tty1 first if you do not use QWERTY.

This build also provides (untested) aarch64-linux images.

#guix #nonguix
@jessebot #guix is one programming language called #scheme actually #guile scheme, NIx uses its own declarative language. #Guix does not have any non GNU software unless you add #nonguix channels to your system, which is that much of a big deal. Each system uses transactions and immutability. I use personally use #guix and have actually been getting into more and more #scheme programming and learning it. I am bias I like #guix , both are learning curves though.

@jessebot Both are great but also very different from standard #Linux distributions so it can take a while to master.

I chose #guix which I use and contribute to, so I'm super biased!

My path was to use #guix on top of another distribution (#ubuntu for me) first. I wrote an 'introductory series' of blog posts that might help:

https://www.futurile.net/resources/guix/

For #guix the things I like is that as a system it's smaller and if you use with #nonguix it has everything you need. It's also friendly.

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Guix - functional package manager, environments and hosts

2026-01-18 build of my Guix System installation LiveCDs ("LiveCDs" section in https://codeberg.org/hako/Testament) is out!

Notably I have finally finished testing Xorg support for NVIDIA proprietary driver! More information on the setup is updated in Nonguix README.

Installer used for this build will add the following comments to the generated configuration so you can edit it before installation:

;; Uncomment the following line for NVIDIA proprietary driver support. ;; (nonguix-transformation-nvidia #:configure-xorg? #t)
#guix #nonguix

RE: https://boiledscript.com/notes/ahlefb6rrsgs0ak7